Noun: knit
Sample Sentences
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There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits. [2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105:]
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It's always time for a bit of a knit. [2014, Elvira Woodruff, To Knit or Not to Knit:]
Nouns inflected like knit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gnod-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵnu-tonder.?
5. Proto-Germanic *knuttô
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
7. Proto-Germanic *-janą
8. Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną
9. Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan
10. Old English cnyttan
11. Middle English knytten
12. English knit
13. Inherited from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną, from *knuttô + *-janą.
14. Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot. See: Old Norse Nouns '
knýta', Danish Nouns '
knytte'.
Verbs referencing "knit"
English Nouns
connect.